The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-27
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THERE are 1900 railroads, operated by 500
corporations. under the operation of the inter-
state commerce law. Up to this time about
10000 books, papers, documents, showing
rates, fares and charges for transportation and
contracts, agreements be .ween the roads as 10
Interstate commerce, have been filed in the COM
missioners' Office.
The great evangelist Moody, has had re-
markable success in Pittsburg. He has been
there three weeks and it is estimated that 200,-
600 heard him preach The result OF his LABOR Is
the conversion of 1000 people. He will next go
to Chicago, and from there to Louisville, where
he is badly needed and where great prepare
tons are being made for his coming.
ANEwspAPER correspondent reports that while
out hunting in the Moosehead Lake region,
Maine, he came across a pair of liquor dealers
who carried on their business in a canoe. They
depended for patronage on the laborers en-
ployed in building the Canadian Pacific railroad,
and did the most of their business on Sundays,
when the men were not at work.
TwENTY-FoUR YEARS AGO Jacob Franks,
young Philadelphia, went to Central City,
New He is son of Capt Franks, an old-time
Quaker city det@ctive. For nearly a quarter of
acentury Capt. Franks heard nothing OF his son.
Young Franks prospered, however. and though
he failed to communicate with his father did
not forget him. Monday he reached Philadel-
phia from the West with little boy who called
old Capt. Franks grandfather. Surely there
are strange meetings III this strange world OF
ours.
A vINcExNEs qsSD.) MAN says: 81 was out by
myself one afternoon, and, going along through
the woods, noticed gum tree breathing. The
top part of the tree would spread out until some
of the limbs nearly reached the ground, and
then they would go back again. stood and
watched this proceeding for an hour, when
went back to the camp and told the boys. We
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if ever told the truth in my life, we found l21
'coons in that tree 1t was the 'coons' breathing
that made it spread out the way it did.
MISS KITTY KANousE, daughter of wealthy
farmer of Stoughton, Wis, and granddaughter
of ex-Gov Taylor, took part the other evening
in an amateur operate entertainment and won
great applause. After the show was over. while
her father was waiting at one door for her to
come out, she skipped out by another way in
her stage dress and ran off with her lover to be
married. The couple went in a buggy TO
neighboring town reused minister from his
slumbers and were married standing up in the
buggy. The father arrived on the, scene just in
time to hear the words pronounced that made
them man and wife.
AT Columbia, Conn., the other day people
were surprised to see cat chase big rat out
of house and tree it on a tall elm. The cat
kept on after the rat to the top of the tree,
and the rat ran out to the end of a thin, plant
Dough; then the rat turned toward the cat,
whisked its tail and showed8s teeth. The cat
tried twice to go out to the 1t, but, though the
tempt was abandoned. The cat slid down into
the topmost crotch of the tree and dashed the
limbs with her tail. The rat cooked its nose
defiantly toward the sky. The cats owner
finally came out of the house with shotgun.
TIE cat sat up hrisklv and watched the aim.
The piece cracked and the rat fell to the ground
Instantly the cat ranbled down the tree,
picked up the rat and ran off.
GEORGE CAMPBELL, an old darkey, was, on Dec.
Z, 1885, from Orange county, Virginia, received
at the penitentiary to serve ten years for murder
in the second degree. Recently the following
petition was received by the Governor asking
for pardon for the old convict: LAS the shouts
of Virgnias liberty-loying children, as they
exult over the political death and burial of q
political tyrant and traitor, echo and die away
among the huts and the mountains OF the great
Southwest: as the glad huZzas from the eastern
shore are lost on the wild waves of the foaming
Atlantic the fires of patriotism burn and
glow with renewed spiendor in the brain and
breast of every true Virginian let the eye of thy
Excellency scan the enclosed petition d let
thy great philanthropic heart beat in unison
with the feeling of thy humble petitioner. Hear
the prayer of this poor old negro man, now
hoary and bent with age, sorey afflicted with
only bare possibility of his guilt: and now
while DEATH the great destroyer of US all, stands
whetting his scythe, in the name not only OF
mercy. but of justice, let him 90, that he may
die on the old plantation and be buried near the
cabin of his fathers. Aud to this end your
humble friend, constituent and petitioner will
ever pray, etc.
THERE was an interesting suit in Adams, n.
Y, recently. A wealthy lady, Mrs. Hannah
Perkins, an eccentric character, desired to out
shine or at least to equal Miss Marietta Holly as
writer. Miss Holly, by the way, is native OF
the same town. So, with this idea uppermost
Mrs Perkins engaged Miss .Jackman to write a
novel, that young lady having published book
which had given her some reputation as an
authoress. The foundation of the story was to
be certain incident in the life of Mrs. Perkins
and her family Miss Jackman readily accepted
an offer of 1900 to write t1e book VIII Gu, when
published, was to pass as the work Of Mrs. Per-
kins and make her famous in the literary world.
The young lady began her task early in January
and concluded 1t in May. Mrs. Perkins,
however refused to accept the manuscript or
to pay for il. Suit was therefore broueh hit and
the contract proven. The defense tried to show
that the young lady claimed the work would
bring s., 600 and that she agreed to write it,
giving the defendant onehalf of that sum for
furnishing the incidents of her life for the plot
A mass of contradictory evidence was taken,
many of the witnesses being members of Mrs
Perkins family. The manuscript was proven
to be of fair character. in shape for publication
and as good as could be expected from young
lady of Miss Jdckman's age and experience,
which were known to the defendant when she
made the barg in. The verdict was for the full
amount claimed, and the jury added interest
from June, 1885, making judgment for 81 ,63S !
A CHICAGO young man who wooed girl and
became engaged to her. has had the pleasure of
going through his courtship a second time.
They were to be married in week, when the
young lady was taken violently ill., becoming
insensible. She continued in partly comatose
condition for six weeks, when she suddenly re-
covered her health and was as well as ever ex-
cept that she could not remember anything
connected with her past life. She could not re.
call any locality where she had been and did |
not remember her sister, nor even her lover nor
any of her friends. She had been thoroughly |
educated al an Eastern college, but singulary
enough, all her education. knowledge of events |
and general information remained with her |
unimpaired, although she coul not remem- |
was with her at school. That was six months |
ago. After awhile she began to go out again |
into society, and it was necessary to introduce |
her TO old friends who had known her from |
childhood. She was even introduced to her /
lover. He began his courtship all over again |
proSpered in it as before, and the two are again |
engaged to be married, although the young
woman is sure she has known her affiauced hus-
band less than six months. She is as sprightly |
and gay in society as she ever was, and shows |
the same general information, but all her past |
life has been blotted out. Two physicians of |
New York. who make loss of memory special
ty, have been here treating the young woman |
without success
MANY persons believe that under the present
system of education young people are acquiring
distate for manual labor, and that there is,
consequently. danger that the trade and agri-
cultural occupations will be deserted by all but
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